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Let’s Stop LGBT People Coming Out Of The Closet

Published: 25/07/2014

Things that belong in a closet: guest towels and spare bed sheets. Things that don’t: lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender people. After self-acceptance comes the closet – a source of tremendous inner turmoil that LGBT individuals have to overcome. But in many ways the community as a whole is still trying to escape it. Pedalled by political agendas, religious fundamentalists and endemic ignorance, a sordid, sexualised fallacy still lingers – and the closet is at its epicentre. In the sluggish march towards equal rights the time is right to take an axe to this anachronistic mausoleum, make a wicker-man from its splintered remains and emancipate the LGBT community from its claustrophobic reductionism.